The world of the unknown - Onua.org

People today are surrounded by many new inventions, but few people think about where they come from and how affected our lives.

A week ago the American coast of the Atlantic ocean was subjected to the action of the hurricane. Employees of the center of space flights of them. J.. Marshall in Hunstville noticed a surprising anomaly - luminous arcs that were intertwined around midday sun.

Bolivia returned 700-year-old mummy in Peru, where it was stolen by antiquity dealers. The mummy of a young child about two years has only 30 cm in height and is in sitting position, wrapped in a blanket.

Saber-toothed tigers ate prehistoric horses, scientists believe. The diet of ancient predators, which occupied the top place in the food chain, it is always difficult to determine.

Professor Valentin Sapunov from the Russian state hydrometeorological University aroused the anger of many scientists of his claim that scientific tests, including testing DNA showed that samples of hair, was found in a remote cave Siberia, belong to the male unknown mammal.

American astrophysicists Rebecca Martin and Mario Livio proposed model of formation of habitable planets, according to which the possibility of their existence is determined by the radius of the orbits of the gas giants in the system and the density of the asteroid belt.

Marine biologist Chuck Fischer suggested unexpected idea, designed to help in the fight against world hunger.

The death of the Earth have been predicting for a long Millennium. And now, we are on the threshold of the next Apocalypse. The end of the world-phraseological unit, which means a real threat to the extinction of all people and the planet.

Time magazine decided not to wait for the end of the year (and maybe in America already pre-holiday mood or they simply took over Ukrainian tradition "to catch up to the elections" - only their own and presidential) and already in the beginning of November has started to sum up the results, published a selection of the most successful and/or important inventions 2012. For us, this rating is of particular interest because in the list came startup Ukrainian students - Enable Talk, which in July, won one of the most prestigious nominations of the competition Microsoft Imagine Cup.

About 74 thousand years ago on the island of Sumatra there was a terrible eruption of Toba. According to estimates, it was 5 thousand times bigger eruption of mount St. Helens in 1980. Yes, there is a major eruption on the planet for the last 2 million years!

NASA scientists are conducting the work associated with the establishment of the satellite, which was not launched into outer space, and purposefully will be destroyed on Earth.

The discovery, which has the potential to make a real revolution in medicine that has made the American scientists from the University of Rochester. They found the body of rodents-mole rats special protein INF beta, which literally includes a function of self-destruction inside cancer cells, thereby giving the rodents immunity to cancer.

Archeologists say that the age of the bones is from 10 to 30 thousand years.

It appears from our home Galaxy is very good appetite! Still milky Way regularly "eats" small galaxies and star clusters, and the deeper they fall into its area of gravitation, the stronger draws them in. However, in this gluttony positive side - swallowed all the stars become part of our Galaxy.

In Novosibirsk died academician Eduard Kruglyakov, who headed the Commission against pseudoscience and falsification of scientific research of RAS